One of my friends, Shawn Stratton, has just released an interesting blog post, positing a solution to a problem all developers doing object oriented programming in PHP will eventually run into. (No, not THAT one, the other one) Shawn not only presents the problem but an interesting solution. I’m not going to tell you what the problem is here though. If you can’t guess from the title, you’ll have to click inside to find out more and a link.

There’s no shortage of PHP template engines and they’re all very similar, often differing only in implementation details and support for specific features. They all serve the same purpose: that of functionally separating a Web application’s user interface from its business logic, and thereby enabling developers and interface designers to work on the same application without getting in each other’s hair.

Over on his blog, Eric Hogue has written an interesting article on the tools available to you for profiling your application. Click on in, the link is around here somewhere.

Plurk is a popular micro-blogging site that allows users to quickly and concisely post status updates, news and event streams. It also comes with a JSON-based Web service API that allows developers to programmatically add, search and manipulate Plurk content. This article shows you how to quickly and efficiently connect your PHP application to Plurk using Plurk’s PHP library.

Have you ever heard of PECL/mysql_uh? Ok, fine, maybe you have but I hadn’t until I read this blog post by…well, I’m not sure who it’s by but it was RTed by @PierreJoy so I read it. Click on through, I’ll share the super-secret URL and other goodies.

My good friend and former colleague, Harrie Verveer, recently posted a tutorial over on techPortal on Database Version Control. Click on in, I’ll tell you why I think you should read it.

Over at phpbuilder.com, Jason Gilmore (a really smart guy) has posted a great article on how he used Zend_Cache to…well cache stuff. It’s an interesting read, partly because Zend_Cache is cool and partly because Jason is a good writer. Click on in, we’ll discuss it.

Digg offers a Web service API that makes possible to develop customized applications on top of the base service. This API, currently in its second incarnation, allows access to a number of important Digg functions, including searching and commenting on Digg stories. This article takes a fast look at how to integrate Digg’s Web service with a PHP application using the PEAR Services_Digg2 class.

If you’ve been around PHP for a while, you’ve probably heard about APC, the Alternative PHP Cache. Adding APC to an application usually results in improved application response times, reduced server load and happier users. This article will introduce you to APC and guide you through the process of integrating it with your PHP application.

Joey Rivera posted a tutorial on his blog recently discussing how to authenticate with the Twitter API using Zend_Oauth. Click on in for all the details, facts and probably an opinion or two.